The companies priorities were very out of order. They placed way too much emphasis on our client books in a specifi type of retail where inevitably the customers are not consistant for a miriad of reasons. It was a huge waste of energy and time in my opinion.

Unqualified Sales Associates are promoted to management across the country. They may have sales experience but usually no people managing experience. Upper management makes decisions, which may be justified for reasons unknown to the stores, but do not make sense at the store level. Sometimes there are unrealistic sales and magazine subscription expectations. Stores often run out of product before its been replaced and...

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Advice to Management

Pay employees more so you can get and keep good employees. Provide management training if you're not going to hire managers from outside the company.

Upper management (district manager, regional manager etc) treats anyone below them terribly, it's all about money and numbers, even if we make our goal we get chewed out for other things (upt, parents magazine sign ups, conversion etc), the company wants to be high end but the store doesn't reflect that and the company doesn't invest in store. Since there is only one Pea in the Pod in the area our district is lumped together...

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Advice to Management

Listen to the employees we know what it takes to run the store, we know our clients and what they want. Let the employees know how appreciated they are. The stores need a serious make over